Quick Install Instructions
If there are bugs found in this CD release, workaround information can
be found at http://www.OpenBSD.org/errata.html
Please refer to the following files on the three CDROM's for extensive
details on how to install OpenBSD 3.3 on your machine:
CD1:3.3/i386/INSTALL.i386
CD2:3.3/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
CD2:3.3/vax/INSTALL.vax
CD3:3.3/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
CD3:3.3/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
Other architectures are available on the FTP site, due to not fitting
onto the 3 CDs we are able to provide.
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
use of the "disklabel -E" command. If you are at all confused when
installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
i386:
Play with your BIOS options, and see if you can enable booting from CD1.
Many older PCs have ROM bugs with CD booting. If CD booting fails, write
CD1:3.3/i386/floppy33.fs to a floppy, then boot that. Use floppyB33.fs instead
for greater scsi controller support, or floppyC33.fs for better laptop support.
If you are mixing OpenBSD with another operating system, you will want to
read the INSTALL.i386 document.
If you have problems with pcibios, use "&gt; boot -c" and then
"UKC&gt; disable pcibios", and following the install read the pcibios(8) manual page.
MACPPC:
Use CD2. At poweron, hold down the 'c' key until the display turns
on and shows "OpenBSD/macppc Boot". Or at the Open Firmware prompt type
"boot cd:,ofwboot /3.3/macppc/bsd.rd"
VAX:
Please refer to the INSTALL.vax file.
SPARC:
To boot off CD3, type "boot cdrom 3.3/sparc/bsd.rd", or
"b sd(0,6,0)3.3/sparc/bsd.rd" depending on your ROM version.
Alternatively, write CD3:3.3/sparc/floppy33.fs to a floppy and boot
using "boot fd()" or "boot floppy" depending on your ROM version.
On machines using the Forth prom, you must use new mode.
SPARC64:
To boot off CD3, type "boot cdrom". Otherwise, write
CD3:3.3/sparc64/floppy33.fs to a floppy and boot it using "boot floppy"
or write CD3:3.3/sparc64/miniroot33.fs to the swap partition on the
disk and use the PROM to boot from that partition using "boot disk:b".
CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled Puffy the Barbarian.
Produced and Arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
Source Code Use
CD#3 contains src.tar.gz. Using this tree it is possible to get a
head-start on using the anoncvs servers as described at
http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html. Using these files results in a much
faster initial CVS update than you could expect from a fresh checkout of
the full OpenBSD source tree. There are two ways of using the CD:
Copy the tree off it, (assuming the CD is mounted on /mnt):
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfz /mnt/src.tar.gz
After this, /usr/src will be a checkout area where all cvs(1) commands
will work OK. Refer to http://www.OpenBSD.org/anoncvs.html for more
details.
CD#3 also contains the following:
Changelogs/ This is all of the CVS commit logs we have generated while
working on the project.
ports.tar.gz Our ports tree. Refer to CD3:/PORTS
XF4.tar.gz A CVS checkout of our version of the XFree86 source tree.
Important man pages to read are config(8) and options(4), which will
describe in detail how kernels are built.
Further Notes:
To make a floppy under MS-DOS, use CD1:/3.3/tools/rawrite.exe.
Under Unix, use "dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k" (where device could
be "floppy" or "rfd0c" or "rfd0a"). To write a floppy under NT, use
CD1:/3.3/tools/ntrw.exe instead. Use properly formatted perfect floppies
with NO BAD BLOCKS or you will lose.
Installing Packages
The OpenBSD CD-ROM ships with several applications pre-built forvarious
hardware architectures. We call these things packages. The number of
applications vary according to available disk space. Check the
directory 3.3/packages/&lt;arch&gt; to see which packages are available for
your hardware architecture.
To install one or more of these packages you must
1) become the superuser (root)
2) mount the appropriate CD-ROM
3) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software
Example (in which we use su(1) to get superuser privileges, thus you
have to be in group "wheel", see the manual page for su(1)).
$ su
Password: &lt;enter your root password&gt;
# mkdir -p /cdrom
# mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom
# cd /cdrom/3.3/packages/&lt;arch&gt;
# pkg_add -v &lt;package-name&gt;
# &lt;add more packages if desired&gt;
# umount /cdrom
Your hardware architecture can be determined by issuing the command
``arch''. The response will be something like ``OpenBSD.sparc''.
``sparc'' is the architecture. The various m68k architectures share packages.
Package names are usually the application name and version with .tgz
appended, e.g. emacs-20.3.tgz. Some packages -- pgp for example -- can
not be placed on the CD-ROM due to patent or other restrictions.
To obtain such packages use the command:
# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.3/packages/&lt;arch&gt;/&lt;package-name&gt;
or
# ftp ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.3/packages/i386
250 CWD command successful
ftp&gt; ls m*
227 Entering Passive Mode (129,128,5,191,164,73)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for m*.
m4-1.4.tgz
magicpoint-1.05a.tgz
malsync-1.6.tgz
mawk-1.3.3.tgz
metamail-2.7.tgz
mgdiff-1.0.tgz
micq-0.4.5.tgz
mirror-2.9.tgz
...
226 Transfer complete.
ftp&gt; get m4-1.4.tgz "|pkg_add -v -"
File System Layout
The following are suggested sub-tree sizes for a full system install.
The numbers include enough extra space to permit you to run a typical
home system that is connected to the internet:
SYSTEM / /usr /var /usr/X11R6
alpha 40MB 250MB 25MB 100MB
i386 40MB 200MB 25MB 140MB
macppc 50MB 200MB 25MB 140MB
sparc 50MB 200MB 25MB 120MB
sparc64 50MB 200MB 25MB 100MB
vax 65MB 125MB 25MB 120MB
When you are in the disklabel editor, you may choose to make your entire
system have just an 'a' and 'b' partition. The 'a' partition you set up
in disklabel will become your root partition, which should be the sum of
all the 3 main values above (/, /usr, and /var) plus some space for
/tmp. The 'b' partition you set up automatically becomes your system
swap partition -- we recommend a minimum of 32MB but if you have disk to
spare make it at least 64MB. However, we recommend you use many seperate
partitions so that users cannot fill up your important partitions as
easily, thus causing nasty denial of service problems. If you are extra
cautious, you will make at least the following seperate partitions:
/ swap /usr /var /tmp /home.
OpenBSD is free software
You can do with it as you like, subject to very few conditions
(described at www.OpenBSD.org/policy.html). But free software isn't
written without money. Network links, hardware costs, release
engineering and testing work; all these things take money and
significant effort on the part of those who have made this what it is.
Please reward the developers who have made OpenBSD what it is, YOU can
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Please be generous, and OpenBSD will keep making a release every 6
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- Thanks to everyone who has purchased an OpenBSD CD-ROM.